About 1,600 Kurdish families displaced in Diala Provine since 2003

DIALA / IraqiNews.com: About 1,600 Kurdish families in northeast Iraq’s Diala Province have been displaced from the areas under conflict in the Province since 2003, a Diala Security official said. Announcing that on Monday, the Deputy Chairman of Diala Province Council’s Security Committee, said the security missions in all areas of Diala, including those under under-conflict “fall under the command of the Operations Command in the Province.” On his part, the leader in the Kurdistan Alliance, Dilair Hassan Saba, told IraqiNews.com news agency that recent months have witnessed the stepping up of violence acts, targeted against Kurds in the areas of conflict. These areas include Saadiya and Jalawla townships in Khanaqin area, 155 km to the northeast of Baaquba, where 400 Kurds have been killed during the years that followed the downfall of the former Baath regime in Iraq in 2003. “The acts of violence have forced the majority of the Kurdish families in the areas of conflict to be displaced, reaching 1,600 families,” Saba said, calling on the Kurdish Peshmerga forces to protect the areas under conflict, in order to put an end for displacement operations. Baaquba, the center of Diala Province, is 57 kms to the northeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. SKH (TI)/SR 366